# =====================================================================
# robots.txt for goal.ai
#
# This file explicitly welcomes general web crawlers AND the AI
# agents / answer-engines that matter for discovery today:
#   OpenAI (ChatGPT, SearchGPT)  -> GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User
#   Anthropic (Claude)           -> ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai
#   Perplexity                   -> PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User
#   Google AI overviews / Gemini -> Google-Extended (training signal),
#                                   Googlebot (web index)
#   Apple Intelligence           -> Applebot-Extended
#   xAI Grok                     -> xAI, Grok
#   Bing / Copilot               -> Bingbot, MSNBot
#   Common Crawl                 -> CCBot
#   Meta AI                      -> FacebookBot, Meta-ExternalAgent
#   You.com                      -> YouBot
#   DuckDuckGo                   -> DuckDuckBot
# =====================================================================

# --- General web crawlers (Google / Bing / DDG / etc.) ---------------
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/

# --- AI answer-engines & LLM training crawlers -----------------------
# Explicit allow entries so there is no ambiguity for the agents
# that honor per-UA directives.

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: xAI
Allow: /

User-agent: Grok
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

# --- Sitemap ---------------------------------------------------------
Sitemap: https://goal.ai/sitemap.xml